Nuremberg: Iconic Photos from the Dawn of International Justice - Part 2
U.S. General Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor for war crimes, in his Nuremberg office on March 5, 1948, leading the charge at the International Military Tribunal.
Hermann Schmitz, former I.G. Farben chairman, delivers his final plea at the U.S. Military Tribunal in Nuremberg on June 11, 1948, concluding his defense with a statement beginning, 'My consciousness...'
Defendant Hans Kehrl receives a 15-year sentence, flanked by U.S. Army honor guards Sgt. Thomas H. Andress and Pfc. Charles L. Scoarce, members of the 16th Infantry Regiment, during the Nuremberg trials.
Gottlob Berger, former chief of the SS head office, is sentenced to 25 years in prison, escorted by Sgt. Thomas H. Andress and an unidentified honor guard during the Nuremberg proceedings.
Paul Koerner receives a 15-year prison sentence, flanked by U.S. Army honor guards Sgt. Thomas H. Andress and Pfc. Bobbie G. Senior, members of the 16th Infantry Regiment, at the Nuremberg trials.
Richard Walther Darre, former SS Senior Group Leader and Reich Minister, accused of war crimes as a leading Nazi 'blood and soil' ideologist during WWII, escorted by U.S. military police at Nuremberg.
Dr. Edmund Veesenmeyer is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, escorted by U.S. Army honor guards Sgt. Thomas H. Andress and Pfc. Jene R. Vaughan during the Nuremberg trials.
Heinrich Lammers receives a 20-year prison sentence, flanked by U.S. Army honor guards Sgt. Thomas H. Andress and Pvt. Leen J. Baran, members of the 16th Infantry Regiment, at Nuremberg.
Dr. Ernst Woermann is sentenced to 7 years imprisonment, escorted by U.S. Army honor guards Sgt. Thomas H. Andress and Pfc. Ciro J. Ruggero of the 16th Infantry, during the Nuremberg trials.
Paul Pleiger receives a 15-year prison sentence, flanked by U.S. Army honor guards Sgt. Thomas H. Andress and Pfc. Charles E. Auxilien of the 16th Infantry Regiment, at Nuremberg.
Fred Niebergall, Director of the Nuremberg Trials' document section, receives files from a German clerk in the document-filled Palace of Justice Building on June 16, 1948, highlighting the immense evidence gathered.
Otto Ambros, chief of the chemical warfare Committee, stands as he hears his eight-year prison verdict from the U.S. Military Tribunal in Nuremberg on July 30, 1948.
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, a prominent defendant, photographed in his Nuremberg city jail cell on November 24, 1945, awaiting trial by the International Military Tribunal.
German Field Marshal Wilhelm Leeb pleads not guilty at the opening of Case 12, facing charges alongside other high-ranking officers at the Nuremberg Trials on December 30, 1947.
Coffins hold the bodies of Nazis executed at Landsberg on May 28, 1946, part of a mass execution for crimes including horrific medical experiments and the killing of thousands of innocent victims.
Simon Kiern, 32, a former Nazi censor and block leader convicted of murder at Dachau, prepared for execution by U.S. military authorities at Landsberg on May 28, 1946.
Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, 74, convicted of deadly malaria experiments on 1,200 concentration camp prisoners, faces execution by U.S. military authorities at Landsberg on May 28, 1946.
